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pM-^Mŵrg, §ą%vtmmt ¡oí tfcf Søvttnuøt,
MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN,)
September 14 1863. J
}
GENERAL ORDERS,
No. 37.
F9QEE
The following extracts from ins ructions of the War Department are published for the information of all concerned in
this department.
WAR DEPARTMENT,
Adjutant General's Office,
Washington, D. C, August 28, 1863.
% * '* * *
All men charged with desertion who belong to regiments whose
terms of service have expired shall be examined by a Commission of
from one to three officers, detailed by the officer (not including Provost Marshals of Enrollment Districts, j under whose command they
may be held in confinement, with a view to ascertain whether they
are actually deserters : and if it should appear that they are not,
their cases will be submitted to the Department Commander, that
the penalty of desertion may be remitted without trial, under par.
159, Army Regulations, and the men seDt to the mustering officer,
(under G. 0. "lC8 of 1863) nearest the place of enrollment to be
mustered out of service.
If the Commission should consider them deserters, or the men cannot clear themselves of the charge, they will be assigned and sent to
one of the Regiments from the same State, serving in the same Corps
or Department in which the Regiments to which they formerly belonged served, for trial, or such disposition as the Division. Corps,
or Department Commander may make of them, according to Regulations, to serve out the time lost by desertion : the Regiment to be
designated by the officer, who forwards them, and entered on their
descriptive list, or muster and descriptive roll.
The time to be made good will be the time from the date of desertion to the date of joining the Regiment to which assigned.
Provost Marshals of Enrollment Districts will forward deserters
from Regiments, whose terms of service have expired, in the same
manner as others, with a view to carry out the above instructions.
*- * * * ' *
E. D. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant General.
By Command or Major General Pope,
J. F. MELINĘ,
Acting Assistant Adjutant General.
Official :
Aide-de-Camp.

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pM-^Mŵrg, §ą%vtmmt ¡oí tfcf Søvttnuøt,
MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN,)
September 14 1863. J
}
GENERAL ORDERS,
No. 37.
F9QEE
The following extracts from ins ructions of the War Department are published for the information of all concerned in
this department.
WAR DEPARTMENT,
Adjutant General's Office,
Washington, D. C, August 28, 1863.
% * '* * *
All men charged with desertion who belong to regiments whose
terms of service have expired shall be examined by a Commission of
from one to three officers, detailed by the officer (not including Provost Marshals of Enrollment Districts, j under whose command they
may be held in confinement, with a view to ascertain whether they
are actually deserters : and if it should appear that they are not,
their cases will be submitted to the Department Commander, that
the penalty of desertion may be remitted without trial, under par.
159, Army Regulations, and the men seDt to the mustering officer,
(under G. 0. "lC8 of 1863) nearest the place of enrollment to be
mustered out of service.
If the Commission should consider them deserters, or the men cannot clear themselves of the charge, they will be assigned and sent to
one of the Regiments from the same State, serving in the same Corps
or Department in which the Regiments to which they formerly belonged served, for trial, or such disposition as the Division. Corps,
or Department Commander may make of them, according to Regulations, to serve out the time lost by desertion : the Regiment to be
designated by the officer, who forwards them, and entered on their
descriptive list, or muster and descriptive roll.
The time to be made good will be the time from the date of desertion to the date of joining the Regiment to which assigned.
Provost Marshals of Enrollment Districts will forward deserters
from Regiments, whose terms of service have expired, in the same
manner as others, with a view to carry out the above instructions.
*- * * * ' *
E. D. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant General.
By Command or Major General Pope,
J. F. MELINĘ,
Acting Assistant Adjutant General.
Official :
Aide-de-Camp.